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Context Language Models

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37725 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922437 Points: 62 # Comments: 13
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RacketCon Is Saturday

Article URL: https://con.racket-lang.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922515 Points: 103 # Comments: 25
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)

Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Please only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here. Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. Searchers: try https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-wants-to-be-hired , https://www.wantstobehired.com . Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does. Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to replying to applicants. Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to comp...
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Identity Management for Agentic AI [pdf] (2025)

Article URL: https://openid.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Identity-Management-for-Agentic-AI.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922736 Points: 55 # Comments: 17
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Red Hat being phased out of existence?

Article URL: https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/01/Red_Hat_Being_Phased_Out_of_Existence_Like_Many_Other_Companies.shtml Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923056 Points: 134 # Comments: 68
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RIP, vector database

Article URL: https://turbopuffer.com/blog/rip-vector-database Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923466 Points: 198 # Comments: 55
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ParadeDB Search Performance Improvements

Article URL: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/opening-a-closed-tin Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924275 Points: 42 # Comments: 8
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Pi 1.0

Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926069 Points: 47 # Comments: 12
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HP’s answer to the MacBook Neo is thinner, lighter, and comes with OLED

HP is announcing a new laptop that's squarely aimed at Apple's MacBook Neo. The 2026 HP OmniBook 5 14 starts at $699.99 with an Intel Core 5 315 "Wildcat Lake" processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. Much of that sounds pretty familiar, being in lockstep with both Apple's Neo and its recent competition […]
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Amazon’s Carrie is a cyberbullying nightmare

Do we really need a new version of Carrie? That's the question that plagues any attempt to reimagine the classic horror tale. Stephen King's 1974 novel remains one of his most iconic, and the film version from Brian De Palma and Sissy Spacek two years later remains unsurpassed, despite a handful adaptations that followed in […]
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Amazon is launching colorful new Kindles — and a case with physical page-turn buttons

Kindles don't usually change much with each new version, but Amazon is launching next-generation models today that look and feel a whole lot nicer. The base Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft are a millimeter thinner and 30 percent faster at opening books, and their power buttons have moved from the bottom to the right […]
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Gears of War: E-Day is a great game launching at a terrible time

There are few blockbuster games that are as confident as Gears of War: E-Day. A prequel to one of Xbox's most transformative titles, E-Day knows exactly what it wants to be: a brutal, tense, and self-aware action game, one that is stronger because it doesn't deviate from that premise. Twenty years since the original Gears […]
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Samsung raised prices on the Galaxy S26 by $100

The base Galaxy S26 with 256GB of storage costs nearly $1,000 after Samsung raised prices in the US by $100 or more, Phone Arena reports. The Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus were already $100 more expensive than their S25 predecessors when they launched earlier this year, which Samsung said RAM price hikes were partly to […]
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What even is a ‘microdrama’?

On Monday, Variety reported that RoseBerry Media is recutting episodes of the Australian soap opera Neighbours "into microdramas." These clips will be available on Epis, a short-form vertical video streaming platform. Though Neighbours ran for 41 seasons from 1985 to 2025, at launch, RoseBerry is only recutting two storylines from the late aughts focused on […]
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Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle

Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah.  The idea was to build the world’s biggest data center — a 40,000-acre AI campus with nine gigawatts of power, or more than double the average power usage of […]
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OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free?

At OpenAI's annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals - primarily Meta, whose Muse AI agent platform has seen early runaway success. CEO Sam Altman walked onstage to cheers and announced Dots, a "real-deal AI" agent powered by GPT-6 Astra, "inspired by the cool agents that we […]
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NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions

New York City residents struggling to get out of recurring subscription fees can now submit complaints to the city government. As of Thursday, the city's click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, which requires businesses to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up. That means a gym that lets you […]